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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.
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Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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With her for guide, you shall never go astray while invoking her, you shall never lose heart so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception while she holds your hand, you cannot fall under her protection you have nothing to fear if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
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Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful they are prudent they are powerful Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.
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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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My burden is light, said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.
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You wish to see listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.
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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity
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Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.
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Action and contemplation are very close companions they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
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Among us on the earth there is His memory but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
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Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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